GCrites

As long as I can demand brown shag carpet, wood paneling, wallpaper that's a picture of a waterfall, a trash compactor and burnt orange appliances, they can demand that historic housed get Mc'ed. Oh wait... my demands are "silly" and theirs aren't.

Outsiders do.

I think that's kind of the point here. Southeast Ohio is the Empty Quarter of our state. I suspect they think this highway will bring more business there. And they're probably right. I mean, would Honda have built that huge plant in Greensburg if I-74 weren't there? Here's where we get into the unpleasant part of Japanese culture. There's certain "types" of Americans that they don't want working for them. They are OK with Americans from farming areas such as Indiana, Marysville, Ada and Lincoln NE, but they don't like employing too many "destitute" Americans such as ones that suffer from deep poverty.

It's actually under construction in West Virginia as we speak: It was authorized by the federal government in 1991 but there was no funding until 1997, when West Virginia created the "King Coal Highway Authority", which set up an elaborate public/private partnership whereby the coal companies are doing the earthmoving, mining coal out of the hills as they do so, then WVDOT is paying to have I-74 paved on the grading prepared by the coal companies. It's a slow process, but West Virginia is getting a spectacular road built for them for pennies relative to the cost of the WV Turnpike. I-73/74 is being built across the hilltops, hundreds of feet above the valley floors, with almost no bridges and zero tunnels because the coal companies are filling in the valleys. But it is not being built to interstate grade; rather ARC corridor grade.

Those kind of people deserve to banished to McManionland for life.

Oh so less than the 11,000 people that drive on Northwest Blvd. here in Columbus. And 1/3rd the amount that drive on 5th. Perhaps they should be turned into Interstates.

The connection of the two 74s in Ohio and NC just isn't going to happen. Blasting through WV and western VA to interstate standards these days requires megabux that were around in the '70-'90s for this kind of stuff but not now. Anyone over 30 familiar with Appalachia remembers what feats dualizing the WV turnpike, opening 64 through SE WV, finishing I-68 and even getting 77/81 through Wythevile VA were.

Oooooh, sorry about Fall Out Boy.

Is that the one seen from 315 south, just south of the ramp that comes up out of The Bottoms?

If freeways delivered all their job promises, West Virginia would have a population of 6 million people.

I don't like how it goes through so much flood plain.

I don't feel tardy...

How about Pendleton?

Shame to see that '80s office go.

I work until at least 8PM. I'd love to go home an just fall asleep but that ain't happenin'. Me going to bed at 11 is like a 9-5er going to bed at 8.

I remember it hit -22 in 1993 or 1994.

And that's why people stop going. It's not narrowcasted enough for today's tastes. Most childless 20-somethings that don't work in education file that under clutter that has no bearing on them.

I'm pretty sure all establishments with a liquor license hype their craft beer selection these days even if it is only 5 beers.

Never raise revenue. Only cut costs. Business 101

Now think about how many of those people make over $100,000 a year. Ladies and Gentlemen, meet your American upper middle class.

Their car control is awful. They don't know the vehicle's limits.

FWIW this is a very high scoring era of college football.

TKILTBAG might find that the rent is better at Newport on the Mason-Dixon.

That way everybody in the Tri-State can drink beer out of a cowboy boot glass like I do!

Yes, the Columbus media has been asking about it since the MSU game and Meyer says personnel changes are a possibility.